Infant and Young Child Feeding

Research has shown that optimum maternal and child nutrition can
reduce the incidence of chronic conditions ranging from obesity,
food allergy and asthma, to cardiovascular disease and
cancers.
This exciting book, edited by Fiona Dykes and Victoria Hall Moran
and with a foreword from Gretel Pelto, explores in an integrated
context the varied factors associated with infant and child
nutrition, including global feeding strategies, cultural factors,
issues influencing breastfeeding, and economic and life cycle
influences. Carefully drawn together and edited, recognising the
many complexities and challenges that face practitioners working in
the field, this landmark publication offers practical suggestions
in this vitally important subject.

Infant and Young Child Feeding:

Offers crucial insights into implementation of a Global
Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding

Illuminates the complex challenges for nutritionists,
dieticians and other health and social care professionals in
implementing international guidelines within local cultural
settings

Includes contributions from leading international experts in
the field

All libraries in universities, medical schools and research
establishments where nutrition and dietetics, midwifery, medicine,
nursing, health studies and social sciences are studied and taught
should have copies of this crucially important book on their
shelves.

Fiona Dykes is Professor of Maternal and Infant Health and Director of the Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit (MAINN) at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. and Victoria Hall Moran is a Senior Lecturer in MAINN and Editor-in-Chief of Maternal and Child Nutrition.

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